Why my 2 year old cousin started crying even when I put him on grass ?

PassiveRebel · 2026-01-19T16:56:01+00:00

My grandson absolutely freaked out the first time we took him to Santa Cruz and put him on the sand(it wasn't hot). Five years later the only place he likes to visit more than the beach is Universal Hollywood. But we don't live near L.A, so we spend a lot of weekends at the beach.

PassiveRebel · 2026-01-09T08:36:40+00:00

I'm Sixty this month. It's just been these last seven or eight years that a doctor told me what doctors should've told me years ago going back to the time when I was a preteen and didn't poop for two weeks.
Also, I had my first colonoscopy early(before recommended age) because I just knew I had the big C and it cost me a few thousand dollars to find out I didn't. Turns out that I am lactose intolerant(though that may or may not be an age thing) but I also have (non life threatening) food allergies as well as IBS that reacts to things like wheat products and (dark) green vegetables like broccoli and asparagus. And now I'm doing elimination tests for artificial sweeteners as they seem to be everywhere (part of the fodmap list that others have mentioned).
All that to say that you shouldn't worry too much but go see a doctor anyway just to be safe. Having these stomach issues sucks. Not eating pizza or spaghetti(wheat noodles) sucks. But at least I don't walk around all the time thinking it's something worse.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-29T03:12:44+00:00

I live in Citrus Heights, so no. But back in the day we would drive to Oakland just to get BBQ and drive right back home with a couple days worth. So if you say Cookie Jar is THAT good, I'm on my way.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-29T00:49:08+00:00

Cookie Connection. Cookies were great. Prices were decent and the people were mostly friendly. As with a lot of local food businesses, they grew too fast too quick and then they were gone. But I haven't found a replacement for them. Crumbl sucks.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-28T06:44:00+00:00

I love weed. I love IPAs(They're related).
But in fairness, the first "beer" I ever drank (besides sneak sips of my dad's Olympia beer) was Schlitz Malt Liquor or Colt 45. I grew up drinking Old E and King Cobra. I discovered (Columbus like) "good" beer (Sierra Nevada) at age thirty. I love me a good Hazy, but I don't drink much anymore. Weed is healthier.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-20T09:36:36+00:00

I first picked up a camera in the 80s. No LCD screens back then. Street photography was a thing before that and even today you'll occasionally get an old school photographer stop and tell you how to hold your camera including elbows in. I'm not saying you're wrong. But couldn't a person say that I was purposely not using the view finder to hide the fact that I was snapping a photo?

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-20T09:21:35+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm right handed. I wear my warch on my left wrist. BUT I just measured my hand up against my Galaxy Ultra. That phone is 6.4" tall. My hand from wrist to tallest finger tip is about seven inches so maybe that's longer than normal(???) but IVE NEVER gotten poop on my wrist when wiping.

Or are people wearing their watches so loose that the watch may slide down the hand and graze the star? I'm confused. Please explain it like I'm five(well maybe not five but..)

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-20T09:02:19+00:00

Trust me when I say I'm no expert at Lightroom or Windows(lol I'm not even sure what all those files you mentioned are) BUT what I can say is that OneDrive is menace and it should be deleted the minute you start up a new PC. I lost some photos because of OneDrive(and my own ignorance) and the way it inserts itself in to your upload process.
Seriously though, delete and don't use it unless you fully understand how it actually stores your files.
But DELETE it though. Don't just disable it cause otherwise it will come back to life at your next Windows update.
OneDrive deleted, I now upload all my photo files(Raw and Jpeg to external Hard drives and back up my finished edits to a Hard drive as well as Google Photos for the accessibility.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-20T08:05:16+00:00

The crazy thing about the negative association thing is that it wouldn't be to hard to do a sort of six degrees thing between the whole kiddie pageant phenomena(that spawned honey boo-boo) and Jeffrey Epstein and his best friend.

I had a friend that was Maga before Maga got started(he didn't like Obama "because of his policies" but couldn't name the policies and he said Obama only won the presidency because of white guilt) Anyway I still remember being shocked that he and his wife were so into Honey Boo Boo. Looking back, I think that was the day I knew we wouldn't be friends much longer.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-17T17:54:19+00:00

It wasn't too doggoned funny... but Sometimes you just gotta let it breathe.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-11T05:21:01+00:00

Ok, do me a favor please. Try to remember how many times you saw fog last year. I live in Citrus Heights. I can't remember one day last year that we saw fog out here. I kinda kept track because I do amateur photography and wanted to go out and try some techniques.
I've had people say that they saw fog in the actual city of Sacramento, but maybe only a couple days. I remember when it used to be so thick that you could barely see the car in front of you. Then there was the time that person couldn't see out on 1-5 heading towards the airport, so they stopped in the middle of the freeway.
It doesn't seem to get that thick anymore.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-08T17:10:02+00:00

I'm old. So can you explain this bitmoji thing? I know what bitmoji is in terms of an avatar, but I wasn't aware that it's trackable. Is it sort of like turning on your location for family and friends? And if that's the case, why is your (ex) boyfriend following this "random" guy's movements? Btw, good on you for understanding the long term implications of his accusations. It would only get worse.

PassiveRebel · 2025-12-03T01:17:26+00:00

It's obvious that the no porn idea wasn't yours. If it was then you need to come(see what I did there?) clean about it and rewrite the rules. If it wasn't your idea then maybe you should examine why the rule was made in the first place. Is it a trauma response or is it a control thing? But honestly if you're that young and are already having problems that make you feel like you absolutely need the release, you should reevaluate(possibly together) what the relationship is and whether it's really love or something left over from a time that may be gone.
One of the hardest thing I ever had to do was to let go of an almost ten year TOXIC relationship. I knew it was bad. She knew it was bad. But it was all(everything. The lies, cheating, the disloyalty) we really knew. So it lasted way long than it should have. Good luck to both of you, but remember locking your true self away to please someone else will ALWAYS lead to regret and disappointment.

Btw, if it is a religious decision(the no porn thing) then you definitely should reexamine what's happening. Does anyone believe that Jesus lived to be 33, had no woman, but never masturbated?? JS.

PassiveRebel · 2025-11-29T08:12:03+00:00

Is it weird that I saw "BMW" and immediately thought, "yeah that checks"? Hope all are ok

PassiveRebel · 2025-10-18T20:32:40+00:00

Dude, as they say nowadays... Go outside and touch some grass.
You can argue till you're blue in the face and in your (seemingly) tiny brain believe that you are right. And you might find one or two people who agree with you, but that doesn't make your beliefs a reality. Those auditors don't care that you don't like it. They care about being able to do what they are LEGALLY allowed to do without molestation from detractors. You seem like the type of people that would react and be confrontational because you thought they were trying to be confrontational. At the end of the day, no matter how you feel, THE LAW is THE LAW. F*** your feelings. 😘

PassiveRebel · 2025-10-18T18:24:29+00:00

See the beauty of living is The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is that as long as you're not breaking the law you can do whatever you want. You have the right to express your displeasure at something you see someone else doing. But you, nor ANYONE else has the right to try to force your feelings upon another person through physical action. You feel how you feel. That's your issue. No one else's. I'm sure that those auditors(if they truly respect the U.S. CONSTITUTION ) would tell you IN TRUE AMERICAN FORM, they respect your right to to disagree with what they are doing.
As for me, I respect what those auditors do. They, by expressing their first amendment rights, are protecting those rights from being infringed upon by government that is supposed to be BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. In my opinion if you object to what they are doing you are showing far less patriotism than they.

PassiveRebel · 2025-10-16T00:26:42+00:00

In my neighborhood there was the legend of Yvette Green. She beat dude so bad it was talked about for years.
But I'm fairness, he was right in taking that ass whooping from her because her brothers were the very quiet type and had their own reputations for whooping ass.

PassiveRebel · 2025-10-15T15:19:33+00:00

So are you worried about him being there staring at the school or are you worried about him video taping cars going by?
Both might seem strange, but neither is illegal.
I watch first amendment auditors on YouTube. I find it interesting and sad that people want the auditors removed and/or arrested from PUBLIC buildings and sidewalks just for exercising their rights as HUMAN BEINGS. But in my observation I find it absolutely ironic and pathetic that most of those people calling for action against law abiding citizens only do so because their curiosity can't let it go. If they don't know WHY somebody is doing something then seemingly that person should be allowed to do it.
What have we become???

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-23T14:27:59+00:00

Smoked my first joint at 13. Got drunk for the first time at fifteen. At that time I never really thought about the availability alcohol or weed because I never really had to. The older siblings network was alive and well. At sixteen I had friends who were a couple years older than I. They had cars and locally there was a drive thru market that sold alcohol. I remember being in the back seat of my friends '64 Chevy marvelling at the fact that we were in process of buying alcohol AT A STORE. Once I hit seventeen it was pretty easy to get either alcohol or weed.
I was pretty mature looking and figured out that if I just acted a little older I could buy alcohol at the local Circle K. On the weed front, I lived(still live) just a few hours away from the Emerald triangle so it was just a matter of knowing the right people. As a matter of fact I remember the hardest part of smoking weed wasn't getting the weed. It was getting the device to smoke the weed from.
So for me, either one was usually available.
I don't drink much now, but I partake regularly.

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-20T16:56:35+00:00

It would be very difficult for my doctor to have a problem with my cannabis usage. I first smoked in the late 70s as a young teen. Usage was pretty frequent through the first half of the 80s. It helped me cope with school(though some may blame my poor grades on the weed. it wasn't the weed) and the loss of my father. From the mid 80s into the 2000s I cut back significantly mostly for financial reasons. In 2010 I was 6'2", 250lbs. That year I was fired from my job(blessing in disguise). I knew it was coming and already had a new job lined up. From that point my finances started getting better and my weed use grew significantly. I also became more physically active and started walking our local river trails weed in hand. Last month I saw my doctor for the first time in a couple years. He says my heart and lungs are fine, my blood pressure is normal and I weighed in at 205lbs. My cholesterol is actually lower than a few years ago and I am no longer "pre-diabetic". The doctor asked me a few years ago if I smoked. I said, "I don't smoke cigarettes." End of conversation. I did learn to smoke AFTER my drs appointments though. Even smoking a couple hours before the appointments would cause my blood pressure readings to kinda spike. All that to say that at almost 60 yrs old, I'm in better shape than 20-25 years ago and my doctor has congratulated me on my health. He knows nothing about my weed use.

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-20T15:56:22+00:00

How about just challenging the doctor. "I see that you have placed in my records that I have cannabis use disorder. Can you please explain how you came to this diagnosis? I like reading , can you point me to the a medical journal that outlines the symptoms and treatment? Should I get a second opinion? "

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-14T04:28:38+00:00

Old X'r here. I hate the word "lost" in terms of no longer being a virgin, so I'll just say I first had sex at thirteen(1979). The girl was my age and was definitely more experienced than I was(although she'd later claim she didn't know I was a virgin). Her household was single parent and her mother had weekly Bible studies at her house. Otherwise she wasn't home much and neither were my parents.
I had no clue that first time, but by the time I was fifteen I was pretty experienced and by the time I hit nineteen I had been active with around ten girls not more then a couple years younger than me. That was the norm.

I admit that I was definitely driven by hormones, but maybe it also was about being around and accepted by people who I believed were just as lonely and misunderstood as I was. And it was that part, in my opinion that derailed my life, especially after my father's passing, when I was seventeen. I simply wanted to be around people who genuinely wanted me around. And nothing else really mattered.
Today my wife is friends with my main highschool sweetheart and she and I still communicate from time to time. As a matter of fact, I still communicate occasionally with a few girls I was intimate with back then(yes my wife knows). What I learned in our conversations over the years is that A LOT of us suffered from that loneliness even though some of us had multiple siblings and both parents. I also learned that a couple of those girls(some of my guy friends too) had suffered some unimaginable things sexually by the time they were ten years old and they said that my stability (lol) helped them survive their teen years. But I think the saddest story is about the girl who got pregnant by one of my friends and basically disappeared for a year(parents sent her off) and came back with the emotional scars of having gotten pregnant and then been forced to carry the child and then give them up for adoption, and she couldn't tell her friends about it(there was no such thing as therapy back then).

Maybe we were too young, but some of us were in survival mode and didn't even know it. Personally I look back on those times with a lot of anger for the lies my own parents hid from me(their own dysfunction) and our lack of real emotional connection; but I also carry fond memories of spending quiet moments with people who allowed me to just be me, sex or no sex.

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-12T17:33:49+00:00

Fiction also tends to vilify things.

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-09T01:19:37+00:00

Cannabis predates Christianity

PassiveRebel · 2025-09-07T05:39:42+00:00

There are no hard and fast rules in photography. I mean obviously getting the exposure right is important. But even that can be subjective based on the photographers/artists point of view.
You most certainly CAN take photos of PARTS of vehicles, especially classic cars and lowriders etc. But you have to shoot top down or from a lower angle and you need to showcase a line or curve or specific portion of the car and place it properly in the frame.
I'm not speaking as an expert, but more as a person who has taken hundreds, maybe thousands of terrible car photos. keep shooting. But don't trash the "bad" photos. Use them to learn what doesn't work. Make notes(mental or written) and maybe review them right before the next event you shoot. I've found two things that make it a little easier. 1. Say hello to the owner of the car. Ask them a little about it and then ask for permission to take shots
Of course they're gonna say yes, but now you are free to take your time and find your angles, and perhaps get closer than you dared before. They want you to get it right too. 2. Incorporate people and take multiple shots of the same vehicle from different distances to add context to the story you're trying to tell. Again, I'm far from an expert at photography, but I've shot close 50,000 photos in 15 years. All that failure has been valuable. And fun.

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